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Issue: First Romance Magazine #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1950
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Issues: #4 of 52 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Publications H [Heart]; True Love StoriesView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Home Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Leon Harvey
Disclose Notes: Indexed from scanned copy at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy covers; newsprint interiors
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:
FlagTeenage Love #24 published January 1954 as I Was a Failure on My First Date! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWedding Ring Library #69 published January 1958 as Wrong Prescription for Love [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Genres: romantic
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A Rival on My Honeymoon!

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Ralph Dale; Stella Dale; Albertina "Tina"; Mrs. Carr
Synopsis: Stella’s parents pay for her honeymoon with Ralph at Three Star Lodge. He admits he’d been there before in high school with his girlfriend Tina. They’d made plans to come to the lodge for their honeymoon, but she died shortly afterward. Although Ralph protests that he loves Stella now, their stay is ruined. But when Ralph goes hiking and doesn’t return on time, Stella remembers a crush she had in high school on her history teacher, one that she eventually got over. Stella joins the search party and rescues Ralph. The honeymoon is saved.
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Romantic Stranger

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Genres: romantic
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I Was Ashamed of My Parents

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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Lucia Magnotti; Dick Winters; Mario Magnotti; Mrs. Magnotti; Doris; Bill; Mr. Winters
Synopsis: Lucia loves fellow high school student Dick, but she is ashamed of her Italian immigrant parents. When Dick meets them, Tina thinks he must consider them “poor, stupid foreigners” and breaks up with him. Her friends think Tina believes they’re not good enough to meet her family. After she sees how popular her father is with his fellow workers despite being an immigrant, Tina throws a party at her house to apologise to her friends. Dick shows up and they reconcile.
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Strange Romantic Customs
First Line: In some of the Malayan communities...
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Disclose Notes: Art identification by Ger Apeldoorn.
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First Line: You Must read These Daring Confessions
Synopsis: House ad for "First Love Illustrated."
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Disclose Notes: Reproduces the cover of "First Love Illustrated" 7 and portions of the first pages of four stories in that issue.
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First Line: Read Every One of These Wonderful Magazines!
Synopsis: House ad and subscription form for the seven Harvey romance comic titles.
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My Superstitious Heart

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Genres: romantic
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Feature(s): Strictly Personal!
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Special Dinner

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Wrong Prescription for Love

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Genres: romantic, science and technology
Character(s): Nina Charles; George Burrows; Pete; Dr. Hill
Synopsis: Nina rejects George's romantic advances because she's studying to get a nursing job at a bigger hospital. “I have no time for romance. It would interfere with my work!” They fall in love anyway, but when she receives a job offer in California, Nina turns down his marriage proposal. George: “You’re mastered by an obsession that has complete control of your most sacred emotions!” When Pete is injured at the airport, Nina misses her flight to help him, and decides she can contribute even in a small city. Nina and George get married. She gives up nursing “entirely” when she becomes pregnant.
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I Was a Failure on My First Date!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
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Genres: romantic
Character(s): Elyse; Clark Crewes; Mary
Synopsis: High school sophomore goes on her first date with senior Clark, but dresses and acts too sophisticated for her age. Clark complains--he thought she was “fresh and unspoiled.” Elyse confesses that she was putting on an act. She advises readers “Be yourself! Be natural!”
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